Under the Scope

After Dr. Marcus Eriksen of the 5 Gyres Institute and students trawled in the Chester River for plastic trash, Kathy Thornton ’13 examined some finds under a microscope. Microscopic plastic pollutes oceans and waterways worldwide.

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